Institute of Control Sciences

International Relations

The Institute has wide and well-established international relations. After the Institute joined the International Federation on Automatic Control (IFAC) in 1957 these relations have been especially consolidated and extended. Professor A.M.Letov, a researcher of the Institute, was elected Vice-president and then President of IFAC in 1959-1960 in acknowledgement of his scientific achievements in Automatic Control.

The first IFAC World Congress was prepared and held in 1960 in Moscow with the active participation of the Institute scientists. The Institute took an active part in holding all IFAC congresses that followed and particularly in organizing and holding the XI IFAC World Congress in 1990 in Tallinn. International cooperation is realized by the Institute in the following forms:

· a fulfillment of joint scientific research work
· participation in international congresses, symposia, conferences, seminars, workshops and exhibitions
· fulfillment of work on the basis of contracts and agreements
· offering consulting services
· joint activities in the international scientific institutions, federations and associations
· participation in the work of editing boards of the international journals and of collected works
· participation in the activities of joint ventures which were organized as a result of active cooperation with the Institute

The high scientific potential and flexibility of organizational structure make it possible for the Institute to participate in theoretical as well as in the applied support of market economics. The Institute acts as founder in many of the new Russian scientific and commercial structures such as joint ventures, associations and share-holding societies.

Joint Ventures

The Institute acts as a founder in the following Joint Ventures (JV):

· SIDIAMED- Russian Swiss-American JV
· CLODICS - Russian-Chinese JV
· OLICS - Russian-Italian JV
· VIAT - Russian-American JV
· INTERCONTROL Russian-Italian JV
· SYSDEC - Russian-Austrian JV
· PETROCOM - Russian-American-German JV

Associations

The Institute has initiated and actively participates in some associations whose members represent Russia and other republics of the former Soviet Union. Among these associations are:

· Saprmash
· Systemcomplex
· PICK users' association
· Diagnostics and fault-tolerance techniques
· Soviet association of artificial intelligence

Share-holding Societies

The Institute is a co-founder of some share-holding societies of open and closed type:

· Logovaz – shareholding society with participation of foreign countries
· Avtex
· Takt
· Systema
· Golem
· Systeminform
· TKT
· INIT
· Tunecs
· Avtomatika